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asciilifeform: but more useful as 'fleet in being'
asciilifeform: same as in thunderstorm.
asciilifeform: but this is good time to note that postindustrial junkyard wars chemistry, as every other craft, differs substantially from the 'you can get any starting material you like by drawing it on paper' schoolbook chem.
asciilifeform: phf: there is enough deadtree-era 'underground' pseudoscientific literature on 'dope cooking' to fill book case. most of it of dubious quality, approaching 'anarchist's cookbook', rather than what normal people think of as chemistry
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's directly evident the most rabid of libertards realised clinton ain't got it ; and are in their grief dealing mode. pronouncements that "the election is rigged" (phrased, of course, as "this was an unedifying year" blabla), assurances that "whoever wins will be a single term president" as if that fixes anything ; even a pretense that putin will take advantage of trump. specifically. as if a) it isn't in the nature
mircea_popescu: That he has been able to surf these scandals regularly as little more than free media opportunities shows that American democracy is in serious need of rehabilitation." << in my view, this settles an ancient point of contention curtis yarvin never manned up to, re "the cathedral" or generally how pervasive, or "in power" the idiots are.
asciilifeform: go an' try, buy anything whatsoever from chem supplier in usa (as cowsie)
mircea_popescu: i dunno why this wouldn't count as dyi.
asciilifeform: story goes, that in at least two academies where these existed, they ended up used as first-class auto-abortuators
asciilifeform: (incidentally, everybody in kindergarten makes fun of the italian tanks with 4 reverse gears, but for some reason nobody discusses american ejection seat developed for $maxint, but never deployed, in vietnam, with its own built-in little airplane wings, so as to skedaddle out of enemy lines when escaping!)
mircea_popescu: general in teh field gets to use his assets as he pleases.
asciilifeform: but, as i gather, decided that it would pointlessly hasten his dekulakization, or some such.
asciilifeform: shinohai: it started life as 'full phoundation'
mircea_popescu: if they spoke russian they'd be called oligarchs, but as it is...
asciilifeform: aha. he is kept around as a tame priest specifically for use on them.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 15:11 asciilifeform: and as phf points out, it leaves you open to attack where the craftmachine is pwned and gives you a wallet-emptier to happily carry to the bunker and sign..
asciilifeform: and as phf points out, it leaves you open to attack where the craftmachine is pwned and gives you a wallet-emptier to happily carry to the bunker and sign.. ☟︎
thestringpuller: as of current you have to dump block on TRB in order to manually grep for a tx-hash to use as an Input to construct a raw transaction
asciilifeform: blocks, sequentially, so as to maintain a picture of what is available to spend.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform works about as well as everything else usg.
asciilifeform: as i understand, it works by making mircea_popescu 'taint' (yes) his coins with 'doublespendiness'
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point being, the miner cartel brink-of-war event didn't proceed, but "equipment" derived from it is now widely deployed, and as you can observe it can selectively disappear txn from the mempool.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-11 16:28 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-11#1539596 << fwiw, as far as i can tell, my boxes never saw these.
asciilifeform: the entire notion of 'marked as doublespend' is odd
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that they are reported as doublespends.
mircea_popescu: that finally got irretrievably broken as i reported here a while back.
asciilifeform: trb wallet is every bit as broken as prb wallet in this respect
phf: that seems tricky, as far as my work is concerned, definitely version 3
mircea_popescu: but that's as far as that goes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform EXACT same as the derps doing nuke security explained they expect in yest linked article. "that the authorised people can launch easily and no one else can period."
mircea_popescu: IF the wallet is correctly implemented (as discussed, text files etc), then fixing any problem is trivial for the operator.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, wallet could run as entirely separate process, and relay its txn by connecting to a node as if it were a node. except it asks for no txn.
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/LCAnf << even the most rabid socialists. the tinge of schadenfreude, delicious as it may be, is still the only distinguishing decoration between "tory" and labour.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2016/11/flotsam-on-fetid-tide.html , 'As she coughs, staggers, convulses, lies, pilfers, sells favors and lapses into intermittent confusion, she still has the courage to tell America that she loathes half of it. That´s candor.'
BingoBoingo of the monthly dispatches most eagerly awaits S.NSA as usual
asciilifeform: who was, for some years, subscribed to all kinds of nonsensical snailmail spamola as result of once being in 'nra' ☟︎
mircea_popescu: they opposed collegiate education for girls, as well as voting in israel etc. i dunno any group teh usg hates moar.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Much as same derps never find Peace
asciilifeform: there are down sides, sure, to living as man, vs amoeba
asciilifeform: as for the 'crayzeee', i'm not convinced that is is possible to keep a small and blockaded country from being swallowed up by the mcdonalds monster without some 'crayzeee.'
asciilifeform: there may however be such a thing as 'bridge too far'.
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing known in nature as "incompatible abstractions"
asciilifeform: which i thought was plain as daylight in the first thread jurov an' i had on subj.
asciilifeform: the zeks of butugychag were productive. as were the rocket designers.
mircea_popescu: su is and always was ~as productive as say turkey. orcland.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, various moderns interred there as well.
mircea_popescu: all the su stick produced was a horde of anal children. almost as if humans are all on the same mind, and even if you keep the borders locked and the sticks sticking, idiot ru citizen will mirror idiot eu citizen nevertheless
asciilifeform: su had famine at the same time as usa: '30s.
asciilifeform: people would rather be cockroaches than people, and as soon as anybody bothered to ~ask~ them - it was over.
asciilifeform: t: they’re not. I feel like someone robbed me of my birthright, as should anyone else who speaks english but never read the Book of Exeter. I’d tell you to go ask the nuns how they did that, but your lot bought them vibrators and taught them to be lesbians, so there aren’t any left to talk to.'
asciilifeform: 'Consider this: my mom went to an ordinary catholic high school. When she graduated, she knew Latin, French and Anglo-Saxon, as well as integral calculus. Apparently, them nuns who taught her knew something which people have now forgotten about teaching methodology. For what it is worth, she didn’t do much homework either, and her school was quite ordinary. And don’t try to tell me that learning these things are somehow irrelevan
asciilifeform: ' They had no way of knowing the oil crisis would come, just as they had no way of knowing you’d need to arrive 3 hours early to the airport because of imbecile US foreign policy hubris. Remember you didn’t even need a photo ID to get on a plane until 1999 or so; you could go to the airport with a bundle of cash and fly anywhere you wanted to; just like in 1967. In a later scene in the video, pals from Philippines and Paris show
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-01#1561340 << none of the linked crud has any resemblance to the l0gz, or qntra, as far as i can tell ☝︎
mircea_popescu: rectum is also ~80% gas, so connection over butt is almost as good too.
shinohai: It's blog is a treasure trove of lulz as well: http://www.alexandraerin.com/care-and-feeding/ "If I exert myself too hard, I pay for it later."
shinohai: https://twitter.com/alexandraerin <<< this thing blocked me on twitter for asking if it went as Kim Dotcom for Halloween
BingoBoingo: Sure, now's as good a time as any. I was going to save rickets for a very Qntra X-mas story, but a holiday is a holiday.
asciilifeform: 'As of 2016, the independently-funded company is staffed by a team of seven, all of whom joined with a security background, with the majority of that experience coming from the US Dept. of Defense.' << i'ma die of lulz nao
asciilifeform: as, e.g., pogo with mechanical hdd does not.
trinque: as compared to bitcoind
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, the txid as used in mempool and the txid as used in block is not required to match.
asciilifeform: btw if shitoshi weren't dropped as a baby, 'which block' would be baked into tx id.
mod6: sure, i think going block -> certainly fits into the same paradigm as eatblock/dumpblock.
mircea_popescu: mod6 note i'm not even discussing a special fs. that's a while down the road. for now, all that's needed is some serious profiling work, to see how we store the thing. prolly as block = file ? and just use a normal ext4 or w/e
BingoBoingo: Anyways, reall Halloween truth. When Elliot was in that Spielberg movie ET, Elliot did not dress up the alien as a ghost. Elliot dressed the alien up as a klansman.
mod6: Another long term goal is to possibly get some more unit tests written for trb. Might not even need to be something in the perm source base, but something as an overlay to give us confidence when we make critical changes down the road.
mod6: I suspect the long term plan will come into better focus as we start to dig into some of these short term ones though.
mod6: Well, short term, I think the current goal is to get through some of these vpatch submissions as we said we would. Hopefully get through a bunch by year end. (Jan 8th) However, the longer term goal is to work on Ideal bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: i think it's a very bad idea to misrepresent this (here) as "selling the box" because it'll cause you nothing but frictive grief.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-31 21:34 gabriel_laddel: I've been charging $200 on top of the price of hardware, but as of today (and an extended navigator that indexes all symbols and their types) - 300
a111: Logged on 2016-10-31 21:30 gabriel_laddel: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-31#1560469 < would you mind reviewing arsttep? I'm shipping it with each machine as part of the manual and would like for others to be able to understand it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "CenturyLink Acquiring "Level 3" As Internet Transit Routes Consolidates" << consolidate ?
gabriel_laddel: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-31#1560799 < the only way to distribute CLIM using CL codebases IMHO is as a "world" that is a livecd + the ability to install itself on another x86_64 machine, with all the sources. ☝︎
gabriel_laddel: translates js to parenscript and parenscript to js, integrated with the conkeror web browser (has same keybindings as emacs)
gabriel_laddel: trinque: as for what is included: McCLIM integrated with: macsyma, femlisp, MJRCALC, a manual, nope.js and more-or-less broken prototypes of everything else on the splash screen screenshot.
gabriel_laddel: I've been charging $200 on top of the price of hardware, but as of today (and an extended navigator that indexes all symbols and their types) - 300 ☟︎
gabriel_laddel: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-31#1560469 < would you mind reviewing arsttep? I'm shipping it with each machine as part of the manual and would like for others to be able to understand it. ☝︎☟︎
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2016/10/centurylink-acquiring-level-3-as-internet-transit-routes-consolidates/ << Qntra - CenturyLink Acquiring "Level 3" As Internet Transit Routes Consolidates
asciilifeform: sure as fuck not
asciilifeform: this is my reaction to clim, and same as to ms word 2010 and related abortions.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what, because you have a magic ball and know wtf he's looking at as he says that ?
asciilifeform: the counter to 'i don't feel any delays' is to sit the 'not feeler' in front of wordperfect on msdos and watch his face as he says 'this dun feel any faster'
phf: mircea_popescu: dog slow is same as intractable but applied to system design, solution that theoretically works but in practice takes too long to be useful. depending on the kind of algorithms involved dog slow has different solutions, like if it's a linear algorithm, then you can solve dog slow with a faster machine, but if it's a polynomial complexity algorithm, then dog slow might be solved by putting constraints on inputs
mircea_popescu: as far as anyone knows, dog slow kinda means exactly that "irritatingly slow to me", to which "i don't feel any delays" is a valid counter.
asciilifeform: because, today just as in 1980, it is very difficult to 'compete with 3111111117 w4r3z
asciilifeform: as it is, ru derps still feel comfortable running 'outlook' on winblows 10.
asciilifeform: the example earlier, 'word perfect on msdos 5', has ~0 perceptible delays. and this was on the junkiest hardware ~ever sold as a comp.
asciilifeform: nah mainly because slow as molasses
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> pro tip : you can still jumpstart cars today as in 1916 << Some German "innovashuns" are exceptions. Unless your bar for "jumpstarting" only carries to turning motor over then still true.
mircea_popescu: somehow they elide the obvious point that his right move, and his coherent with himself move, is to simply FIRE EVERYONE and then hire people as he perceives the need.
mircea_popescu: as ~everyone with two neurons to rub together has been disabused of this notion, the next guy who wants to change.org might as well point a nuke to the white house.
mircea_popescu: people somehow bought into this "public opinion as an aggregate of the supposed opinions of irrelevant individual cattle MATTERS!!1", and so we had wikileaks.
mircea_popescu: pro tip : you can still jumpstart cars today as in 1916
trinque: reminds my of my parents idiot dog that nervously stares at you as if to say "I am good boy???"
asciilifeform: when i learned that mircea_popescu watches his pr0n on an ibm t40, i could not picture it as with anything but mplayer
mircea_popescu: very weird, the list of nonsense these people sprout. it's as if they have 0 reflexive capacity whatsoever, how am i supposed to distinguish google "ai" from some douche who spits out " Your style of just summarily shitting on how the author wrote this piece adds no value to the discussion." ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'As someone that been on HN for 9 years, pushing back on these kinds of comments is my business. This is my opinion on the value of you coming to Hacker News to complain about the author's writing style, and secondarily aimed at other commenters here. Your style of just summarily shitting on how the author wrote this piece adds no value to the discussion. Clearly lots of other people like it, this has been the #1 piece on HN for hour
asciilifeform: ratpoison cuts displays apart into ports which behave quite the same as separate display.
asciilifeform: well those ain't 'windows' as far as wm is concerned
trinque lives in emacs, has it as window-manager even, never sees flicker